Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 119
They accompanied with blows of their hammers and with songs the parting words of the vanishing Dryad.
Who acts: fishes, hammers · What happens: accompany, vanish, blow, word · To what, where: vanishing Dryad
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, hammers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 accompanied | nsubj |
| 2 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 blows | case |
| 4 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accompanied | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hammers | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hammers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blows | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 songs | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 songs | case |
| 10 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hammers | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 12 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | compound |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hammers | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Dryad | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dryad | det |
| 16 | vanishing | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 Dryad | amod |
| 17 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 words | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | fishes = fish | with blows of fishes's hammers and songs and the parting words of the vanishing Dryad | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | vanish | gerund | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | blow | fishes's hammers and songs and the parting words of the vanishing Dryad | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | word | the vanishing Dryad | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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